161 Breaking the shell (8)

This was the most dangerous situation he has been in since he defeated the armored husk, but this was real life and not the nightmare realm. If he died here once then it was over.

His mind was in shambles and his body was wrecked to a ridiculous point. Aldrich was sure that he wouldn't be able to maintain consciousness for long, so he tried to think of what to do.

Obviously he and Frank were out of the picture but the others were still in fighting shape so if he came up with an idea—

"Shit, shit, shit!" Cole cursed out loud, "how did this happen? Fuck, fuck all of this!"

"Cole try to calm down—" Nathan tried to talk some sense into him.

"Calm what? Huh?! Calm what?! We're fucking dead!" Cole snapped.

Nathan lowered his head with nothing to retort, he had nothing to say to that anyway.

"Shit," Hellen muttered as she sank down to her knees, "I knew something wasn't right when we got this quest, this is bullshit!"